II astronauts will return for a 10-day deep-space mission that’ll test new spacecraft, new partnerships and a new approach to ...

The day Apollo 11 landed on the moon 40 years ago, it inspired Eddie Lee McGhee to name his newborn daughter after the lunar lander. But he didn't name her Eagle. He named her Module. Module McGhee ...

On 1971, Apollo 14, the third U.S. mission to land on the moon, blasted off using a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center ...

Humanity has changed an awful lot in the past 58 Years. The moon? Not so much. It was in 1968 that astronauts first drew near ...

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As NASA prepared astronauts for its second mission into space, National Geographic had exclusive behind-the-scenes access for the intense and out-of-this-world training these pioneers underwent.

James Arthur Lovell Jr., the test pilot turned astronaut who helped prevent the Apollo 13 mission from ending in disaster, died on Thursday at the age of 97. NASA confirmed Lovell’s death on Friday, ...

“Houston, we’ve had a problem,” were the words of Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell when an explosion crippled the spacecraft and threatened the lives of the crew ...

Legendary NASA astronaut Jim Lovell died on Thursday, he was 97. Lovell was a U.S. Navy fighter pilot and later a test pilot before becoming an astronaut during the days of the Gemini Program. Lovell ...